Chris Muronzi

Harare

Financial Journalist at Al Jazeera English

Experienced financial journalist, editor & writer and international correspondent @AJEnglish , Financial Mail (SA), Quartz (US). Former business editor @Zim Ind

Articles

OK Zimbabwe's majority shareholders back $30m rights issue, CEO says

6 days ago | bizcommunity.com | Chris Muronzi

2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show moreAdvertise your job vacancies Grocery retailer OK Zimbabwe Ltd's majority shareholders have agreed to back a $30m rights issue to cover a "funding gap" and stabilise the company's financial position, its chief executive said. Source: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko"Most of the top five shareholders have indicated interest in following their rights," CEO Willard Zireva told Reuters on Wednesday, 7 May 2025.
Jo Stak. La Cina mi ama

1 week ago | internazionale.it | Chris Muronzi

Era il 2017 e Jo Stak, con una giacca rossa, un papillon e una lobbia, intonava una canzone in mandarino. Le luci rosse e gialle lampeggiavano intorno a lui, mentre il pubblico della versione cinese di The Voice sventolava bandiere. Alla fine dell’esibizione ha ricevuto una standing ovation. Quella sera la sua interpretazione di una canzone cinese del 1992 intitolata “Il mondo ha bisogno di cuori caldi” è stata trasmessa dalla tv nazionale.
OK Zimbabwe's majority shareholders back $30m rights issue, CEO says

1 week ago | bizcommunity.ug | Chris Muronzi

2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show moreAdvertise your job vacancies Grocery retailer OK Zimbabwe Ltd's majority shareholders have agreed to back a $30m rights issue to cover a "funding gap" and stabilise the company's financial position, its chief executive said. Source: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko"Most of the top five shareholders have indicated interest in following their rights," CEO Willard Zireva told Reuters on Wednesday, 7 May 2025.
The Zimbabwean singer who found fame in China

1 month ago | aljazeera.com | Chris Muronzi

Harare, Zimbabwe - It was 2017 and Jo Stak - wearing a red tuxedo jacket, a bow tie and a homburg hat - was belting out a Mandarin song. Red and yellow lights shimmered around him as a crowd of cheering, flag-waving fans on the Chinese version of The Voice gave a standing ovation at the end of his act. Stak's melodious rendition of a 1992 Chinese song called The World Needs Warm Hearts was broadcast on national television.
Starlink in Zimbabwe sells out as demand overwhelms supply

Dec 12, 2024 | restofworld.org | Chris Muronzi

When Alois Kachere decided to order a Starlink kit after the company’s launch in Zimbabwe in September, he hoped to be the first person in his neighborhood to get the high-speed internet terminal. But others had beat him to it: “Starlink is at capacity in your area,” he read on the website. Starlink kits were sold out where Kachere lived in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city.
The Chinese takeover of Zimbabwe’s trucking sector

Oct 2, 2024 | businesslive.co.za | Chris Muronzi

Many state schools are struggling and underresourced. But one of them has shown that with determination and planning they can be made to flourish, financially and academically
WhatsApp novelists use messaging app to write and sell books in Zimbabwe

Aug 30, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Chris Muronzi

Harare, Zimbabwe – Sitting on a plastic chair, Kingston Dhewa stares intently at his smartphone, his thumbs jabbing furiously at the screen. He stops briefly and looks up to attend to a customer at his outdoor fruit and vegetable stall in Budiriro 5, a busy, low-income suburb south of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3list 2 of 3list 3 of 3end of listWhen the customer leaves, he grabs his phone and resumes typing in a Google Doc. It’s around midday and the sun blazes mercilessly.
What’s up on WhatsApp in Zimbabwe

Aug 14, 2024 | businesslive.co.za | Chris Muronzi

The new chair of parliament’s appropriations committee, Mmusi Maimane, tells the FM how the GNU will bring sharper scrutiny to the budget process
Zimbabwe: When the capital collapses

Jul 24, 2024 | businesslive.co.za | Chris Muronzi

Harare is a microcosm of state failure, as water and power cuts, and the threat of cholera, plague residents. Where the government has failed, they’re stepping into the breach
Sangomas with ring lights: Zimbabwe’s traditional healers take to TikTok

Jul 4, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Chris Muronzi

Harare, Zimbabwe – Wearing a stylish black leather jacket and a red blouse, a denim sun hat covering her dreadlocked head, Gogo Mafirakureva goes live on TikTok. In just the first few minutes of her livestream, almost 1,000 people join in.